zeplin
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Hats off to the Bo Sox!!! I can't believe how hard and willing they are too win and not give up!
But why has no one talked of the two controversial (or obviously clear call based on the re-play) plays of todays game?? First off, I think what the most expensive player in baseball did today was the most childish, immature, "cry-baby attempt at getting his way" thing I've seen in a long time. It perhaps was matched by Roger Clemens "accidentally" "tossing" the bat at the pitcher (I think it was?), which happened a few years back. I can understand the frustration the Yanks must have with being only one game away from going onto the world series...but intentionally swating/swinging your hands at the glove of a player who was cleary going to tag him out looked as if Alex was throwing a temper tantrum because of his hit not producing what he had wanted given the situation with Jeter in possible scoring position!!! It just makes me question the morality of a person...who I thought I had respect for...when he does something like that. Even if it was a gut reaction to do something like that, I still think Alex should have been thrown the hell out of the game for being such a sore loser on a single play/one at bat!!
And the Yankee fans throwing stuff onto the field was un-called for by far. Everyone knows, and should know, that when you go to a game and sit in the stands, your view of something/close play, possibly hundreds of feet away, is not nearly or even close as good a perspective of what both the umpires sees (and can rightfully dispute after the fact) as well as what the viewers see at home. The re-play cleary showed that the hit was a home run...and Matsui (sp?) knew it right away until he decided that, maybe we can get away with it since the ball bounced back onto the field. The fans therefore had no reason to cry as much as they did to try and disrupt the game from continuing on. I would have thought the NY fans would have had more respect for the game itself in addition to more respect for all the people who did nothing to disrupt the game? But I guess I was wrong. And I also again understand that playoff time often makes the players and fans "on edge," but that is no justification for reacting the way they did. At the same time, these things happen from time to time and they show that some people take sports far too seriously, letting it affect them to the point where they can act irrationally towards a simple controversial call...which btw happens all the time and is nothing new...no umpire is 100% perfect. Why do you think the sport of football now allows one challenge call per game that gives the refs the chance to look a call over again using slow-motion instant re-play!?!
Anyways, that just the distaste that todays game left in my mind after seeing people react the way they did today.
But why has no one talked of the two controversial (or obviously clear call based on the re-play) plays of todays game?? First off, I think what the most expensive player in baseball did today was the most childish, immature, "cry-baby attempt at getting his way" thing I've seen in a long time. It perhaps was matched by Roger Clemens "accidentally" "tossing" the bat at the pitcher (I think it was?), which happened a few years back. I can understand the frustration the Yanks must have with being only one game away from going onto the world series...but intentionally swating/swinging your hands at the glove of a player who was cleary going to tag him out looked as if Alex was throwing a temper tantrum because of his hit not producing what he had wanted given the situation with Jeter in possible scoring position!!! It just makes me question the morality of a person...who I thought I had respect for...when he does something like that. Even if it was a gut reaction to do something like that, I still think Alex should have been thrown the hell out of the game for being such a sore loser on a single play/one at bat!!
And the Yankee fans throwing stuff onto the field was un-called for by far. Everyone knows, and should know, that when you go to a game and sit in the stands, your view of something/close play, possibly hundreds of feet away, is not nearly or even close as good a perspective of what both the umpires sees (and can rightfully dispute after the fact) as well as what the viewers see at home. The re-play cleary showed that the hit was a home run...and Matsui (sp?) knew it right away until he decided that, maybe we can get away with it since the ball bounced back onto the field. The fans therefore had no reason to cry as much as they did to try and disrupt the game from continuing on. I would have thought the NY fans would have had more respect for the game itself in addition to more respect for all the people who did nothing to disrupt the game? But I guess I was wrong. And I also again understand that playoff time often makes the players and fans "on edge," but that is no justification for reacting the way they did. At the same time, these things happen from time to time and they show that some people take sports far too seriously, letting it affect them to the point where they can act irrationally towards a simple controversial call...which btw happens all the time and is nothing new...no umpire is 100% perfect. Why do you think the sport of football now allows one challenge call per game that gives the refs the chance to look a call over again using slow-motion instant re-play!?!
Anyways, that just the distaste that todays game left in my mind after seeing people react the way they did today.
